Printing and folding machine.



Patented May 22, 1900. W. SCBTT.

PRINTING AND FOLDING MACHINE.

(Application filed Apr. 7, 1897.) (No Model.)

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W. SCOTT.

PRINTING AND FOLDING MACHINE.

(Application filed Apr. 7, 1897.)

Patented May 22, I900.

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"WALTER SCOTT, OF PLAINFIELD, NEIV JERSEY.

PRINTING AND FOLDING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 649,958, dated May 22,1900.

Original application filed June 24, 1895, Serial No. 553,804. Dividedand this application filed April '7, 1897. Serial No, 631,089. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, IVALTER SCOTT, acitizen of the United States, and aresident of Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printing andFoldingMachines,of which the following is a specification.

This application is a division of my application for Letters Patentfiled on the 24th day of June, 1895, serially numbered 553,804, nowLetters Patent numbered 584,274, dated June 8, 1897.

The invention relates to an arrangement of web-perfecting presses,web-guides, and a turner-bar,whereby a number of webs are perfected,then associated, and then collectively turned aside and run to thefolding, cutting, and delivery mechanism. Prior machines have beenarranged to perfect a number of webs, to associate these, and then torun the associated webs to alongitudinal folder whose rollers are atright angles to the cylinders of the presses, as in my Letters Patentgranted the 19th day of January, 1892, and bearing number 467,265. Othermachines have been arranged to perfect a number of webs in presses,which webs move inopposite direc tions, the press'cylinders beingparallel to the rollers of the longitudinal folder and a turning-barbeing employed for each web, as in United States Letters Patent datedthe 2d day of April, 1889, and bearing number 400,548. In yet othercases a machine perfecting a single web has been shown, in which machinethe cylinders of the press and folder are parallel, a turner-bar beingused to guide the web to one side of the folder, as in United StatesLetters Patent No. 339, 532, granted the 6th day of April, 1886. In thefirst of these cases the delivery is at the side or sides of themachine, and so, also, of the second case, whilein the third case thedelivery is at the end. The presentinvention differs from all these inthat in it a number of web-perfecting presses are arranged with theircylinders substantially parallel. The webs all'move in the same generaldirection and are associated. Then the associated webs are turned abouta single turner-bar and over one or more guides to a longitudinal folderwhose cylinders are parallel, or substantially so, to the cylinders ofthe presses, and the folded product is delivered in the direction of thelength of the machine, as at the end. The usual collecting devices maybe used in the folding, cutting, and delivery apparatus, if so desired.

The preferred form of the invention is shown in the accompanyingdrawings, forming part hereof, in whic'n- Figure 1 is a diagrammaticside view showing three web-perfecting presses arranged one aboveanother, guide-rollers and a guide for associating the webs, a singleturning-bar for changing the direction of motion of the associated webs,a longitudinal folder, and cut ting and delivery mechanism. Fig. 2 is apartial plan showing the bar or roller on which the webs are associated,the single turningbar for the associated webs, and the longitudinalfolder; and Fig. 3 is a view of the delivery end of the machine, showingthe turnerand the longitudinal folder.

The three presses A 13 C are shown with their cylinders parallel andwith fixed guides, as the rollers 1 2 3, 6 7 8, 1O 11 12, for their respective webs a b c, the adjustable or usual register-rolls 4 9, and theguide or roller 5, on which the webs a b c are associated. From theguide 5 the associated webs pass to the turner-bar13, (which is in theinstance shown at an angle of forty-five degrees to the course of thewebs.) which turns the webs toward the side of the machine. In thepreferred form of the invention the webs now pass over and down about aguide or roller 14, over a second guide or roller 15 onto the triangleor former 16 of a longitudinal folder, and down between the externalguides or rollers 17 18 at the apex of the former. Thence the foldedwebs pass to the cutting-cylinders 19 20, the take-off cylinders 21 22,the folding-rollers 23 24, delivery-cylinder 25, and onto the delivery(traveling) tapes 26. I remark that the use of two guides or rollers, as14 15, between the turner-bar 13 and the former 16 allows of the placingof the former 16 within the side frames F, in which the cylinders of thepresses are journaled. I also remark that the use of the two guides 1415 has the further advantage of compensating for the dis placement ofthe webs relatively to each other by the bar 13, so that the loss by thetop web and described in my patent aforesaid.

By the foregoing arrangement of parts I reduce the lengthwise spaceoccupied by the machine, provide for the production of fourpage,six-page, eight-page, ten-page, and twelve-page copies, or by collectingcuts by the cylinders 22 21, as in my said Letters Patent set forth, Iprovide for sixteen-page,

twenty-page, and twenty-four page copies in addition to those alreadynamed. By running but one press, with forms for printing two pagesabreast thereon and not collecting, a four-page product is had. Byrunning two presses, one having a full-width web and the other ahalf-Width web, and printing two pages abreast on the wider web and asingle page on the narrower Web and then associating the tWo webs andnot collecting a six-page product is secured. By running two presseseach with full-width web having two pages abreast thereon an eight-pageproduct is had. By running twopresses as last described and the thirdpress with a half-width web having a single page thereon on each side,associating, and folding a ten-page copy is produced. By running threepresses each with a f ull- Width web having two pages abreast thereon atwelve-page copy is had. By running two presses, as above described foreightpage copies, and by collecting the cuts a sixteenpage copy isproduced. By running all three presses and arranging as for the ten ortwelve page products and also collecting twenty or twenty-four-pagecopies are secured. The addition of one or more presses and webs wouldmerely increase the range of the products, it being assumed that eachsheet contains but four pages.

While I have shown presses which perfect webs two pages Wide, I am awarethat presses printing webs four pages wide are in use and that myinvention is capable of use with each longitudinal half of theassociated webs from a number of such presses.

For the purposes of this specification I have taken the longitudinalfolder as exclusive of the guide or roller 15.

What I claim is- In a web-printing machine, the combination of a numberof web-perfecting presses whose webs all move in the same generaldirection, a guide 5 on which the said webs are associated, a singleturner or angle bar as 13 for changing the direction of motion of saidassociated webs into another plane, a longitudinal folder arranged inline with said presses, said folder having its rollers or cylinderssubstantially parallel to the cylinders of said presses or the guide 5,and two guides as rollers 14 15 for reversing the direction of travel ofthe webs and so compensating for the displacement of the webs relativelyto each other by the turner-bar and directing the associated webs fromthe turner to the folder, substantially as described.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, this 1st day of April, A. D. 1897.

WALTER SCOTT.

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OHAs. A. BRODEK, RICHARD W. BARKLEY.

